When we highly trained professional humor
columnists need to kill space, or as we say in the biz "fill
column inches" we compile lists. Not just random lists,
of course. Lists that will be of great value to our readers.
That way we can fill column inches (see? You're learning already!),
entertain and inform our readers and, most importantly, keep
that tax deduction on the computer.

The same can be said of exercise regimens.
You don't have to be a body builder or a genetic aberration like
Richard Simmons to be a fitness guru, all you have to be is famous.

For example there's:

Sweatin' With Karl Rove.

Martha Stewart's tasteful prison workout.

The Ashton Kutcher "I'd Better Have Something
to Fall Back On" Workout.

Stephen Hawking's Bending Time and Space Workout.

The Marquis De Sade Workout.

Hardening any body part (except ones that
will get you thrown out of a family paper), such as the famous
"Steel" series, Buns of Steel, Arms and Abs of Steel,
Hair Follicles of Steel... you get the point. We recommend:

Iron Abs

Platinum Pecs

Titanium Toes

Breasts of Boron

And if just hardening selective body parts
isn't your thing, There are exercise regimens taken from the
military:

The Foreign Legion Desert Death March Workout.

The Swiss Navy Workout.

Trench Warfare Toe Touching: Fitness Tips
from The Battle Of Verdun.

Raise Your Arms The French Army Way!

Just Deserters: Get in Shape by Running Away.

For those hipsters who are into "surfing
the net" on your "laptops" while drinking "lattes"
and listening to your "i-Pods" (as opposed to "trying
to write a column" on your "Honeywell Word Processor",
with "Carter era transistor technology", not that I'm
bitter or anything), you know that there's a site out there for
every interest, pursuit or perversion. Here are some of the lesser
known web sites:

Oven Mitts Illustrated

People with Cabbages

The "My Mother the Car" Shrine

Ask Gary Coleman

The Chopin Liszt: Everything you wanted to know about composers

Doorknobs of Dayton, Ohio

My Helmut Kohl Page

Dancing Roadkill

The Mustard Packet Collector

The Calzone Fanzone

The Clamato Juice Recipe Exchange

From Soap to Nuts: Grocery Lists I have Compiled

Have you ever looked at someone's bumper sticker and said to
yourself "What kind of nimrod would put THAT on his car?
Is it covering a rust spot, or maybe a "Dukakis for President"
sticker?

They range from the political:"Bush-Cheney",
"Kerry-Edwards", "Nader: Why Bother?", "Larouche
in 2000", etc.To the self promoting: "My child is an
honor student at St. Elmo's High School"

To the humorous: "My Child Beat up your
Honor Student"

To the esoteric: "My Karma Ran Over my
Dogma"

To the sports related "Yankees Suck"

To the indecipherable. I once saw a bumper
sticker that read "Put it Back,

Thief, Now!" If anyone knows what that
means, please drop me a line. That way I can write off the e-mail,
too.We know that a lot of our readers are history buffs, so we've
compiled some Colonial bumper stickers that might have appeared
on hay wagons, carriages or the buttocks of a horse (see

"Dukakis for President"):

"Proud parent of a powder monkey"

"My child is an indentured servant at the Hawthorne Plantation"

"I'd rather be playing at ninepins"

"Have you whipped your slaves today?"

"I saw the whites of their eyes at Bunker Hill"

"I'd rather be shooting Indians"

"My other horse is a stallion"

"I got flogged on the USS Constitution"

"John Adams for Prefident"

"Coopers do it with barrel staves"

"Yankees suck"

See? You've learned something valuable while
being entertained. Try THAT with the average supermarket tabloid.
And if the IRS is reading this, forget what I said about the
Honeywell Word Processor. The $53,212.54 that I claimed for work
related computer expenses was perfectly legitimate.